On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 18:29, Stephen McConnell wrote: > Hi! > > > J Aaron Farr wrote: > > >Hello. > > > >Merlin rocks. So does Maven. > > > > ;-) > > > > >I've got a simple hack into Merlin that auto-downloads dependencies listed in > >the block.xml <engine> configuration. It first checks for a local copy and if > >that doesn't exist it can download it from a Maven-style remote repository > >(like ibiblio.org/maven). > > > > This is what I had in mind - although we need a separation between a > local deployment repository as opposed a local build repository. That's > why Merlin has its own repository. But the intention is to follow the > Maven pattern here with a chain of repositories, potentially linking > into a Avalon repo, Apache repo, ibiblio, etc. - and configurable to > enable enterprise repositories.
Most of what I needed was already in the FileRepository class. I simple created a MavenRepository class which attempts to download resources from the remote repositories when it can't find the resource in it's own local repository. Wasn't much work, but it wasn't a very pretty modification on its own. I'm interested in what could be reused from Maven itself, but I haven't gotten that far. > >Still need to: > > > > - establish way to configure repository locations (new command-line > >argument?) > > > > I was thinking along the lines of putting this into the kernel > configuration (and potential overrides via optional kernel context > entries reflecting some additional command line switches (or whatever > the deployment context is)). This has been the trickiest part so far. Right now I added another command line option which creates the repository and passes it into the context used by the kernel builder. Putting it into kernel configuration would probably be a much better solution. -- jaaron <http://jadetower.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
